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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Some benefits of sustainable food production systems
  • Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:25:18 -0700


from Institute of Science in Society
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SustainableWorldInitiativeF.php
Some benefits of sustainable food production systems

* 2- to 10-fold energy saving on switching to low-input/organic
agriculture

* 5 to 15% global fossil fuel emissions offset by sequestration of
carbon in organically managed soil

* 50 to 92% reduction in carbon dioxide emission from the soil on
switching from conventional tillage to no-till agriculture

* 5 tonnes of carbon dioxide emission disappear with every tonne of
nitrogen fertilizer phased out

* 2-3-fold increase in crop yield using compost in Ethiopia,
outperforming chemical fertilizers

* Organic farming performs as well or slightly better than conventional
industrial farming in the US

* Small farms are 2 to 10 times more productive than larger farms

* Organic farms support significantly more birds, bats, invertebrates
and wild plants than conventional farm in Europe

* Organic foods contain more vitamins, minerals and other
micronutrients than conventionally produced foods

* 1 000 or more community-supported farms across US and Canada bring
$36m income per year directly to the farms

* £50-78m go directly into the pocket of farmers trading in some 200
established local farmers' markets in the UK

* Buying food in local farmers' market generates twice as much for the
local economy than buying food in supermarkets chains

* Money spent with a local supplier is worth four times as much as
money spent with non-local supplier






  • [Livingontheland] Some benefits of sustainable food production systems, TradingPostPaul, 02/13/2007

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